Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson is suggesting on-air that American operatives assassinate Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez to stop his country from becoming "a launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism."
"We don't need another $200 billion war to get rid of one strong-arm dictator," he continued. "It's a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with."
"You know, I don't know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it," Robertson said. "It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war ... and I don't think any oil shipments will stop."
Robertson has made controversial statements in the past. In October 2003, he suggested that the State Department be blown up with a nuclear device. He has also said that feminism encourages women to "kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians."
The Bush administration quickly distanced itself from Robertson's suggestion to "take out" Chavez.
At the Pentagon, defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld (left) said the US doesn't do that kind of thing, adding, "It's against the law."
Rumsfeld says Robertson's a private citizen, and private citizens say all kinds of things all the time.
Now I ask you, This idiot has been making these (to put it bluntly) terroristic comments on his television show for years. Where's the justice here? You can get arrested nowadays for refusing to take off your shoes for inspection in an airport (you might have a really bad case of athlete's foot), yet some evangelical asswipe can broadcast his hatred and suggest assination and nuclear explosions of government buildings in this country across the airwaves and the White House turns a blind eye????
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